Adjustable shade-support.



G. ARDITO.

ADJUSTABLE SHADE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26, 1913.

1,113,181. Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIcE.

GIOVANNI ABDITO, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J'OSEP FIGALLO, 0F HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

ADJUSTABLE SHADE-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

Application filed November 26, 1913. Serial No. 803,268.

States, residing at Hoboken, in the countyof Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Shade-Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide an adjustable support for window shades adapted to permit the roller and upper portion of the shade to be adjusted at various positions relative to the window and lower portion of the shade, and independently of the latter.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which shall be easy and convenient to operate, simple in construction and inexpensive tomanufacture.

Referring to the accompanylng drawing wherein is shown a practical and approved embodiment of the invention, Figure 1, represents a front elevation of a window having a shade supported by my improved device. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation, slightly enlar ed of the device as applied to use.

Re erring to the drawing in detail wherein similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral 5 indicates a window frame of ordinary construction in which is arranged the shade 6 fixed at one end, in the usual manner, upon a roller 7.

The support for the shade 6 consists in a pair of devices 8, each having a base 9 carrying adjacent the upper end a bracket 10 formed with an arcuate opening 11'. A distance below .the bracket 10 the base 9 is formed with an ear 12 carrying a pivot pin 13, and it is apparent from Fig. 2 that the pivot pin 13 is arranged at a point representing the center of the curve of the opening 11. An arm 14 is pivotally secured to the pin 13 and carries adjacent the opposite end a threaded bolt or the like 15 adapted to work through the opening 11 as the frame is oscillated. A winged nut 16 is threaded on the projecting end of the bolt 15 and is adapted to be screwed upon said bolt to secure the frame 14; in adjusted position on the bracket 10.

It will be understood that two of the supporting devices 8 are provided for each window and are arranged at the upper end andv opposite sides of the window frame 5 as clearly shown in Fig. 1. A roller 17 is rotatably mounted between arms 18 carried by the lower ends of the bases 9. The roller 7 of the shade is supported at its opposite ends in the slots 19 formed in the free ends of the arms 14, and the shade 6 extends from said roll downwardly over the roller 17 which latter retains the lower portion of the shade 6 close to the window frame 5 regardless of the position of the roller 7, as is clearly apparent in Fig. 2.

The arms 14 may be adjusted so as to assume'the positions shown in full or dotted lines in Fig. 2, or, to any intermediate position by simply unscrewing the winged nut 16 and moving said arms together with the shade roller 7 to the desired position and subsequently turning saidwinged nut so as to secure the parts in adjusted position.

WVhat I claim is,

The combination in an adjustable shade support of a pair of bases to be secured to opposite sides of a window casing, brackets carried on the upper extremity of said bases and having arcuate guideways therein, roller mountings carried at the lower extremity of said bases, swinging arms pivoted to said bases between said brackets and said mountings, a shade roller mounted at the extremity of said arms, an idler roller secured in said mountings, and means carried by said arms to coact with said guideways in securing said shade rollers in any adjusted position with respect to said guide ways, the whole operating in such manner that the top of the window may be opened for the circulation of air while the bottom is still screened.

,In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GIOVANNI ARDITO.

Witnesses:

FRANK BACIGALUPO, WILLIAM MULLER.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

